A trip I planned in 1996 came to be in 2010 when the right storm at the right time came. With thundersnow present the only Acela to run during the historic mid Atlantic storm blasts northward.
Acela kicking up snow through BWI.
Amtrak Acela train 2256 hustles northward through the snow, running eight minutes off the advertised into Philadelphia's 30th Street Station.
The Acela class unit leads a morning train south on the last leg of it's trip before it reaches Washington D.C. Acela operations have continued to operate on a highly limited COVID-19 schedule sin... (more)
An Amtrak Acela Express rounds the bend, ducking the PRR era signal bridge, making a sunset approach into Eddystone, PA.
AMTK No. 2039 leads an Acela Express past Sharon Hill station catching the last and best light of the day. Interestingly enough, the tail end of the set is just a stone's throw from Curtis Hill s... (more)
Amtrak's Acela Express races south through Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania, passing the 1948 built Curtis Park station.
This station serves as a surviving example of a station that once existed in L... (more)
Amtrak Acela at Larchmont, NY.
Amtrak Acela Express train 2253 passing the Old Greenwich, CT. station.
Three generations of high speed rail together, L to R: Bombardier Acela I, Budd Metroliner (now cab car), and Alstom Acela II. Although the Budd Metroliners had issues preventing them from living... (more)
New meets old... The next generation of Acela has an all new look, and will eventually phase out all of the original Acela I sets.
Get your shots now, it won't be that long before these trains are gone and the next generation is the new norm.
An unlikely couple. MARC 68 rescued an Acela that encountered a problem enroute to DC, leading it into Union Station long hood forward.
A southbound Amtrak Acela Express is on the opening stretch of its trip down to Washington as it winds along the Northeast Corridor and past the shelters and station building at Sharon. The sun is... (more)
An Amtrak Acela Express to Boston passing the Mamaroneck station.
